A Springboard to Victory
Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
Biographical note
Sherman Xiaogang Lai, Ph.D. (2008) in History, Queen’s University at Kingston, M.A. (2002) Royal Military College of Canada, is a Research Associate in the Leverhulme China’s War with Japan Programme, University of Oxford. He is a former officer of the Chinese army and served in China’s Vietnam War.
Readership
All those interested in the Chinese Revolution, Mao Zedong, the Sino-Japanese War, and Chinese society, economy and military power.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: The Birth of the CCP Military-fiscal State in Shandong
Chapter Two: Moving Towards Confrontation
Chapter Three: Escalation and the CCP’s Financial Framework
Chapter Four: Institutions of Economic Control
Chapter Five: Pre-Pearl Harbor Policy Changes
Chapter Six: From the Strategies of Confrontation to Time-killing
Chapter Seven: Perseverance
Chapter Eight: Financial Pressure, Xu Muqiao and Salt
Chapter Nine: Turning Point and Encroachments
Chapter Ten: Accessing the Enemy’s Resources for Post-war Rivalry
Chapter Eleven: The Campaign to Reduce Rents and Interest Rates
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion
Chapter One: The Birth of the CCP Military-fiscal State in Shandong
Chapter Two: Moving Towards Confrontation
Chapter Three: Escalation and the CCP’s Financial Framework
Chapter Four: Institutions of Economic Control
Chapter Five: Pre-Pearl Harbor Policy Changes
Chapter Six: From the Strategies of Confrontation to Time-killing
Chapter Seven: Perseverance
Chapter Eight: Financial Pressure, Xu Muqiao and Salt
Chapter Nine: Turning Point and Encroachments
Chapter Ten: Accessing the Enemy’s Resources for Post-war Rivalry
Chapter Eleven: The Campaign to Reduce Rents and Interest Rates
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion
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